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Friday, December 03, 2004

Word of the Day!

picaresque: adj. 1. Of or involving clever rogues or adventurers. 2. Of or relating to a genre of usually satiric prose fiction originating in Spain and depicting in realistic, often humorous detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social degree living by his or her wits in a corrupt society. n. One that is picaresque.

"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Mark Twain's most famous novel about the picaresque of a poor, orphaned boy and a black slave."

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